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Debian Security Advisory DSA 472-1 (fte)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to fte announced via advisory DSA 472-1.
Insight
Insight
Steve Kemp and Jaguar discovered a number of buffer overflow vulnerabilities in vfte, a version of the fte editor which runs on the Linux console, found in the package fte-console. This program is setuid root in order to perform certain types of low-level operations on the console. Due to these bugs, setuid privilege has been removed from vfte, making it only usable by root. We recommend using the terminal version (in the fte-terminal package) instead, which runs on any capable terminal including the Linux console. For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 0.49.13-15woody1. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.50.0-1.1. We recommend that you update your fte package.
Solution
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20472-1